RF Coil Arrays for Parallel Imaging

Room A 201-202      16:00 - 18:00                               Chairs: George R. Duensing and Hiroyuki Fujita

16:00      671.    A 96-Channel MRI System with 23- And 90-Channel Phase Array Head Coils at 1.5 Tesla

Graham Charles Wiggins1, Andreas Potthast2, Christina Triantafyllou1, F Lin1, Thomas Benner1,

Christopher John Wiggins1, Larry Wald1

1Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; 2Siemens Medical Systems, Erlangen, Germany
 

16:12      672.    Approaching Ultimate SNR with Finite Coil Arrays

Florian Wiesinger1, Nicola De Zanche1, Klaas Paul Pruessmann1

1University Zurich and ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
 

16:24      673.    A Geometrically Adjustable 16 Channel Transceive Transmission Line Array for 7 Tesla.

Gregor Adriany1, Johannes Ritter1, Pierre-Francois Van deMoortele1, Steen Moeller1, Carl Snyder1, Bill Voje1,

Tommy Vaughan1, Kamil Ugurbil1

1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
 

16:36      674.    A Z-Gradient Coil for 3D SENSE Imaging at 7 Tesla  - not available

Carl J. Snyder1, Steen Moeller1, Johannes Ritter1, Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele1, Can Akgun1, Gregor Adriany1, Kamil Ugurbil1, Thomas Vaughan1

1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
 

16:48      675.    The Twisted Phased Array: A New Array Design for Improved SNR and G-Factor

Scott B. King1

1National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
 

17:00      676.    Reverse-Decoupled Mode of Volume Strip Array for Parallel Imaging  - not available

Ray F. Lee1, Bernd Stoeckel2, Gabor Mizsei3

1New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA; 2Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., New York, New York, USA; 3Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
 

17:12      677.    Low Coupling with Low G Factor Using Venetian-Blind Arrays  - not available

Christopher J. Hardy1, Jason S. Pelc1, Yudong Zhu1, Joseph E. Piel1, Randy O. Giaquinto1, Daniel K. Sodickson2

1GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA; 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
 

17:24      678.    Superconducting Coil Array for Parallel Imaging  - not available

Jaroslaw Wosik1, Maged Kamel1, Lian Xue1, Lei-Ming Xie1, Krzysztof Nesteruk2, James A. Bankson3

1University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA; 2Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; 3MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
 

17:36      679.    A 32 Channel Receive-Only Phased Array Head Coil for 3T with Novel Geodesic Tiling Geometry

Graham Charles Wiggins1, Christina Triantafyllou1, Andreas Potthast2, A Reykowski2, Matthias Nittka2,

Larry L. Wald1

1Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; 2Siemens Medical Systems, Erlangen, Germany
 

17:48      680.    An Optimized Four Channel BIGMAC-Array for 7.05 T  - not available

Tobias Wichmann1, Mark Griswold1, Reza Kharrazian1, Andrew Webb1, Peter Jakob1

1University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany